JSPS Short Term fellowship as a Visiting Researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology from 11.12.2000 to 11.2.2001

Visiting Professor, University of Bradford, UK from 17.10.2009 to 12.12.2009 under the EU sponsored eLINK project

eLINK Project: Worked as coordinator from Bangladesh in the EU sponsored (EM ECW Ref: 149674-EM-1-2008-1-UK-ERAMUNDUS) eLINK (east west Link for Innovation, Networking and Knowledge exchange) project. In this project five host EU institutions invited third country students, teachers and researchers to carry out 10 months study/research activities in their premises. These institutions are University of Bradford, UK, Staffordshire University, UK, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, University of Sannio, Italy and University LUMIERE LYON2, France. The Asian partners who took part in the project are United International University, Bangladesh, College of Science and Technology, Bhutan, Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal, Mohammed Ali Jinnah University, Pakistan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and Chiang Mai University, Thailand. From a total of 334 scholarships worth of 5.5 million Euro, Bangladesh enjoyed 85 scholarships under undergraduate, masters, ph.d, post doctoral and teachers training categories.

cLINK Project: Working as joint coordinator in the EU sponsored Erasmus Mundus Action 2 partnerships (372242-1-2012-1-UK-ERA MUNDUS –EMA 21) Clink ( Centre of Excellence for Learning, Innovation, Networking and Knowledge) project. In this project six host EU institutions invited third country students, teachers and researchers to carry out 10/20 months study/research activities in their premises. These institutions are University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK, Staffordshire University, UK, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, University of Bremen, Germany and University LUMIERE LYON2, France and Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Lasi, Romania. The Asian partners who took part in the project are United International University, Bangladesh, Royal University, Bhutan, Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal, Mohammed Ali Jinnah University, Pakistan, Jadavpur University, India, Northeastern University, China and Chiang Mai University, Thailand and University Putra, Malaysia. From a total of 112 scholarships, Bangladesh enjoyed 22 scholarships under undergraduate, masters, ph.d, post doctoral and teachers training categories.

FUSION project: Working as joint coordinator in the EU (ERUSMUS MUNDUS) sponsored FUSION (Featured eUrope and South asIa mObility Network) project which aims to foster partnerships of emerging Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, China, India, and Thailand) with the EU countries (Bulgaria, France Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, and UK) to reinforce the existing collaborations developed through the EU funded projects. In this project ten host EU institutions invite third country students, teachers and researchers to carry out 10/20 months study/research activities in their premises. Similarly EU students and researchers will carry out 6/10 months study/research in Asian universities. All the cost involved will be borne by EU. The EU partners are Bournemouth University, United Kingdom, Rusenski universitet “Angel Kanchev”, Bulgaria, Université LUMIERE LYON2, France, University of Bremen, Germany, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, University of Sannio, Italy, Universidade de Évora, Portugal, Mälardalen University, Sweden and University of Northumbria at Newcastle, United Kingdom. The Asian partners are Information and Communication Technology Institute, Afghanistan, Kabul University, Afghanistan, United International University, Bangladesh, College of Science and Technology, Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan, Chengdu University, China, Zhongyuan University of Technology, China, Asia Pacific Institute Of Information Technology SD India, India, Gulbarga University , India, Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal, Mohammed Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan and Chiang Mai University, Thailand. This 48 months project is worth of 3.05 million Euro and is aimed to offer 151 scholarships in total.

Worked as a team leader of visiting team for Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education, IEB

Worked as organizing committee chair for the 10th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, held in 2007.

Editor of the Proceedings and member of the organizing committee of the Annual Paper Meet and International Conference, Jointly organized by Electrical Engineering Division, IEB and Federation of Engineers Institute of South and Central Asia, 9th February, 2002, Rajshahi

Editor of the Proceedings and member of the organizing committee of the 2nd International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Jointly organized by Electrical Engineering Division, IEB and IEEE, Bangladesh Section, 23-24 October, 2002, Khulna.

Editor of the Proceedings and Chair of the technical committee of the 3rd International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Jointly organized by Electrical Engineering Division, IEB and IEEE, Bangladesh Section, 22-24 December, 2003, Dhaka.

Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Information Technology, ITPC 2003, 24-26 May, 2003, Katmundu, Nepal.

Member of the Program Committee and Program Committee co-chair of the International Conference on Software, Information and Knowledge Management and Applications (SKIMA 2010) to be held in Paro, Bhutan from 24th August to 27 August, 2010.

Worked as the Project Director of the project named “Modernization of CSE Departments Laboratory (Establishment of Network lab and Multimedia and Web lab)” funded by the Ministry of Science & Technology

Worked as the Moderator for Bangladesh from March, 2001 to September, 2004 to carry out quality checks on IT learning and assessment in NCC education accredited centers in Bangladesh

Worked as an expert in the evaluation of Bangladesh Railway Reservation and Ticketing Project for the final acceptance by the Government.

Worked as a council member of Bangladesh Computer Council from 1999 to 2001

Worked as an expert member of primary loan appraisal committee for exporting software funded by Janata Bank, Bangladesh Shilpa Rin Sangstha and Export Promotion Bureau.

Worked as a member of the technical committee in many national organizations like Bangladesh Shilpa Bank, Sonali Bank, AG office, Postal Department of Bangladesh, Cabinet Secretariat of the Govt. of Bangladesh and so on

Worked as an expert in various selection committee of different national organizations

Worked as a paper setter for the Higher Secondary Certificate examinations held under the Dhaka Board

Worked as an expert member of the Advisory board of Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology run by Engineering Staff College, Bangladesh

List of Post Graduate research supervised

Bengali Character Recognition using Genetic Algorithm.

Database Characterization using Induction.

Development of a Low Cost 16-bit Microprocessor Trainer.

Dimensioning and Optimization of Telephone System using Computerized Tools.

Derivation of Scientific Laws through Analysis of Processes and the Corresponding Equations.

Automatic Hull Form Generation using Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithm.

Hasan Sarwar, Mizanur Rahman, Nasreen akter, Saima Hossain, Sabrina Ahmed and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, “Selection of an optimal set of features for Bengali character recognition”, Appears as a chapter in the BOOK “Technical Challenges and Design Issues in Bangla Language Processing”; IGI Publications, July, 2013

Jalal Mahmud and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, ” On Analysis of Multi-dimensional Features for Signature Verification ”, International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modeling, Control and Automation CIMCA’2005, 28-30 November 2005, Vienna Austria

Jalal Mahmud and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman,” On the Power of Feature Analyzer for Signature Verification”,Digital Image Computation ,Techniques and Application DICTA 2005,4-6 December 2005,-Cairnes, Australia.

A K M Ashikur Rahman and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, “Image compression using a Counter Propagation Network”, In Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 25-26 January, 2001

Abu Wasif and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, “Application of dynamic programming principle in decision tree construction”, In Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 3-5, 1999.

Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman and Rezaul Alam Chowdhury, “Multi way splits on continuous attributes for decision trees”, In Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 3-5, 1999.

Fazilatur Rahman and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, “A hybrid algorithm for concept learning”, In Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 18-20, 1998.

Rubaiat Masraq and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, “Combination of cell multiplexing algorithms in ATM networks: A Genetic Programming approach”, In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 18-20, 1998.

Abu Wasif, Rajesh Palit, Md. Mamunur Rashid and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, “Increasing the performance of classification trees by using a mixed criterion of attribute dependency and gain ratio” In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 18-20, 1998.

Abu Wasif, Rajesh Palit, Md. Mamunur Rashid and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, “Construction of decision trees by using the criterion of class- dependency”, In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 18-20, 1998.

Humayun Kabir and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, “A new design methodology for getting normalized relations in relational databases”, In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Dec. 18-20, 1998.

Golam Rasul and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, “Genetic algorithm based model for Bengali character recognition”, In Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 18-20, 1998.

Mohammad Ismat Kadir and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, “Strategies of AI discovery systems: a brief review”, In Proceeding of the 1st National Conference on Computer and Information Systems, 9-10, 1997

Golam Rasul and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, “Genetic algorithm approach to supervised learning and recognition of Bengali numerals”, In Proceeding of the 1st National Conference on Computer and Information Systems, 9-10, 1997

Golam Mostafa and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, “Development of a 16 bit microprocessor trainer for the educational institutions of Bangladesh”, In Proceeding of the 1st National Conference on Computer and Information Systems, 9-10, 1997

Chowdhury Rahman Mofizur and Masayuki Numao, “Look-ahead in ILP by taming the hypothesis search space”, In Proceeding of the 8th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canberra, Australia, Awarded the IEEE’95 best student paper. Also appears in AIIA (Artificial Intelligence In Australia) research report, 1995.

Chowdhury Rahman Mofizur and Masayuki Numao, “Constructive induction in recursive programs”, In Proceedings of the4th International Workshop on Analogical and Inductive Inference and 5th International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning theory, Germany, 1994. Published in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 872, Springer-Verlag

Chowdhury Rahman Mofizur and Masayuki Numao, “Top-down induction of recursive programs from small number of sparse examples”, In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming, Leuven, Belgium, September, 1995. Also appears in the Scientific Report of the Dept. of Computer Science, Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium

Chowdhury Rahman Mofizur and Masayuki Numao, “Logic program synthesis as a controlled search through appropriate hypothesis sub-space”, In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming, Leuven, Belgium, September, 1995. Also appears in the Scientific Report of the Dept. of Computer Science, Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium.